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Deconstructing Child Youth Care: an autoethnographic exploration of physical restraints in children’s residential settings
This thesis is written through the front-line perspective of a child/youth worker who has experienced ‘rupture’ in her personal understanding of the Child Youth Care (CYC) practice. Using a collection of personal journal ... -
Deindustrialization and Urban Regeneration: Nietzsche, Activism, and Organically Emergent Forms of Civic Engagement in Windsor/ Detroit
The deindustrialization of cities represents a moment of cultural and political weakness and insecurity about what it means to be urban. Specifically, within Windsor and Detroit the traditionally rooted modes of production ... -
Demolishing the Competition: The Association between Competitive Video Game Play and Aggression among Adolescents and Young Adults
The link between video game play and aggression is an important issue as video games The link between video game play and aggression is an important issue as video games are the fastest growing ... -
The Demonstration Effect of Hosting a Major Games: A Case Study of Figure Skating and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
Developed by Hindson, Gidlow, and Peebles (1994), the trickle-down effect and more specifically, the demonstration effect, are based on the idea that performances of a host nation’s athletes will inspire the population to ... -
‘Designer Vaginas': The Representation of Female Genitals on Canadian Cosmetic Surgeons' Websites
This thesis critically examines the online marketing tactics of 10 (English language) Canadian cosmetic surgery clinics’ websites that offer Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery (FGCS), specifically, labiaplasty (labial reduction) ... -
Determining the Effectiveness of the Therapeutic Recreation Specialist - Certified Training at Baycrest Health Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the “Champion” training of the Therapeutic Recreation Specialist – Certified (TRSC) at Baycrest Health Sciences (BHS). BHS recently implemented a new model ... -
Development of a Class of Cyclopropenimine Based Compounds for Application in Catalysis
The present thesis outlines our latest findings in the pursuit of novel bis(diisopropylamino)cyclopropenimine (DAC) compounds. Particular focus was placed on the synthesis and investigation of DAC-substituted proton sponges, ... -
The Development of the Children’s Future Thinking Questionnaire: Establishing Validity and Reliability
Future-oriented cognition, the ability to anticipate future states and needs (Bélanger, Atance, Varghese, Nguyen, & Vendetti, 2014), is a critical skill that children must develop for successful daily functioning. Research ... -
DFT Studies of the Organocatalytic Aldol Reaction and a Frustrated Lewis Pair
The computational study, and in particular the density functional theory (DFT) study of the organocatalytic α-chlorination-aldol reaction and the chiral backbone Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP) system served as a valuable tool ... -
Diastereoselective Synthesis of Planar Chiral N-Substituted Ferrocenes Derived from Epimeric Imidazolones and their Application to Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Quinolines
(Brock University, 2015-03-02)This thesis describes the synthesis and use of an N-substituted ferrocene bearing a proline-derived chiral directing group and diastereoselective lithiation-electrophile quench of the pro-Sp hydrogen of the ferrocene to ... -
Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Upper Miocene and Pliocene, Rees Borehole, Northern Belgium
Correlating and dating Neogene deposits along the southern margin of the North Sea Basin have historically been complicated by the fragmentary nature of the outcrops studied, the boreal aspect of the benthic foraminifera ... -
Disease-Gene Association Using Genetic Programming
As a result of mutation in genes, which is a simple change in our DNA, we will have undesirable phenotypes which are known as genetic diseases or disorders. These small changes, which happen frequently, can have extreme ... -
Diverse Primitive Basalts from an Extensional Back-arc Setting: Fort Rock Volcanic Field, Oregon
The Fort Rock Volcanic Field study area (FRVF) is situated in a highly complex volcanic and tectonic extensional back arc setting, influenced by multiple episodes involving the subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate under ... -
Diversity Discourse and the Ontario Educator: The Understandings of Race and Whiteness Among New White Ontario Teachers
As a recent teacher education graduate, I have been left with more questions than answers about how to create and maintain an equitable and antioppressive classroom. These complicated questions of equity laid the groundwork ... -
Do pervasive economic factors explain momentum?
This thesis investigates the relationship between the profitability of momentum strategies and macroeconomic variables associated with the business cycles. We hypothesize that momentum is a risk factor that correlates with ... -
Do You See What I See: The Influence of Self-Objectification on Appearance Anxiety, Intrinsic Motivation, Interoceptive Awareness, and Physical Performance
Objectification theory suggests that when individuals take on an observer’s perspective of their physical appearance (known as self-objectification), they experience an increase in body shame and anxiety and a decrease in ... -
Does zero lower bound policy affect managerial risk-taking and executive compensation?
This study empirically examined whether the zero lower bound policy of 2008 promotes managerial risk-taking using samples of U.S. publicly traded firms. Based on the evidence documented in previous research, this policy ... -
A domain-general perspective on medial frontal brain activity during performance monitoring
Activity of the medial frontal cortex (MFC) has been implicated in attention regulation and performance monitoring. The MFC is thought to generate several event-related potential (ERPs) components, known as medial frontal ... -
DONATION DECISIONS: THE ROLES OF FINANCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INFORMATION
This paper investigates the impact of personal affinity toward a charity and information regarding financial management of potential recipient charitable organizations on decisions to donate. Using an experiment, the study ... -
Drivers of Local Firms’ Focus on Internal R&D in Emerging Economies and Their International Performance
Grounded on the resource-based view of the firm, the study of this thesis investigates the effect of four internal and external factors – engineer intensity, location, affiliation with the government, government funding – ...